Why Choose Xamarin For Cross Platform Mobile Apps With Visual Studio?Mar 05, 2018. Nowadays, everyone wants to use mobile apps rather than websites because they are easy to use with your smartphones. But, do you think mobile apps development is easy? No...Mobile app development is not an easy task due to the availability of different platforms like iOS, Android, and Windows. When we create a website, it is accessible from any device from an Android phone to your laptop. But when you create an App, it is not always accessible from all platforms.

O365 Consuming Azure PAAS SQL DB Through BCSMar 03, 2018. This document explains the steps to configure BCS using Office 365 that can pull data from Azure PaaS SQL DB and also to configure firewall IP ranges and network possibilities.

Execute SQL Server Stored Procedure With User Parameter In Power BIFeb 28, 2018. Sometimes there is a situation in which we need to get data by consuming SQL Server stored procedure. SQL Server stored procedure has parameters which we need to pass dynamically.
Power BI provides a functionality to execute Stored Procedure using Managed Parameters.
During this article we will talk about,
• How to create Manage Parameter
• How to pass manage parameter to a Stored Procedure
• Invoke Query Result and load data to Power BI Desktop

Custom URL Scheme In AndroidFeb 13, 2018. In this article, we will learn how to open Android Application from your browser or hyperlink, if it is installed in android phones.

Automating SVN Check-Ins And Building A Project Via JenkinsFeb 05, 2018. A few weeks back, while sitting with my team, I learned that they run a Jenkins job which has to execute the automation scripts using the robot framework, daily around 1:00 a.m. The primary purpose of the job is to place all the necessary files and folders over the node machine of Jenkins (after copying them from the machine pointed as master on Jenkins), execute those scripts accordingly, generate the reports, and finally copy the output files back to the master machine to analyze the logs for the overall reporting and analysis purposes. This whole efficient job starts with a slack manual step which was enough to tag this activity &#39;not fully automated&#39; because they had to place the updated work regularly on the specified path over the master machine before leaving the office (this includes taking the updated code, files, and automation scripts, building the project to take the DLLs etc.). This may sound tedious but more than that, there is no sense to do it manually.

Introduction To Serverless Computing Using Azure FunctionFeb 01, 2018. Serverless Computing is driven by performing some action as a response to the specific event or trigger. While building serverless apps you don’t need to provision a server or infrastructure. Billing is based on resources consumed or actual time code is running. There&#39;s no need to build app to run the code, no need to set up infrastructure, no need to setup deployment infrastructure. Just focus on code.

CRUD Operations In SharePoint Using REST API - CREATE OperationsJan 18, 2018. REST API is a powerful CSOM concept that can be leveraged in SharePoint for converting sophisticated business designs into working and efficient SharePoint Artifacts (Add-Ins, CSOM solutions, etc.). REST does not require any separate references for its working unlike other frameworks (SPservices!)

How To Debug Minified JS FileJan 05, 2018. Debugging minified JS file is always a tedious task for developers. In day to day development life we end up in a situation where all JS files will be minified and moved into production for deployment. It is usual that some unprecedented JS error comes across browser versions. Being a developer finally it comes to our lap to resolve the issue. To reproduce the same error in a test environment with un-minified JS version doesn’t work out. To resolve this issue requires some kind of hard work which is time consuming.

ASP.NET Core 2.0 Cookie AuthenticationJan 02, 2018. Cookie Authentication allows developers to hook into events at various lifecycle stages of the authentication process. For instance you could log successful sign-ins using OnSignedIn or use OnValidatePrincipal (runs on every request) to invalidate the user (e.g. if you want to force sign-out).

Creating A C# Console App From My iPhoneJan 02, 2018. Hyper IDE [link to https://github.com/polterguy/hyper-ide] is an Open Source web-based Integrated Development Environment. It supports 100+ progamming languages out of the box, and can be integrated with any type of command line tools, such as Git, compilers, etc. This leads to some interesting traits, such as the ability to actually create for instance C# console apps, from the browser on your phone. For the record, writing code on a phone, is not easy, and not something I encourage people to do in general. However, the border line use cases have interest.

Floating Chat Heads Using Android ApplicationDec 19, 2017. We all love the chat head or chat bubbles from the popular Facebook Messanger. This provides very handy and easy access to the chat conversation screen no matter which screen you are on. Chat heads are very convenient for multitasking, as a user can work and chat at the same time. That means if you are using the calculator app on your phone and if any new message arrives, you can open the conversation and replay the message without switching app.

Virtual Entity - New Way Of Integration - Part TwoNov 28, 2017. This is our second article regarding virtual entity, if you have not checked our earlier article, we suggest you check that first here.
In this article we are going to demonstrate about create OData Web API without Entity Framework and hosting it in Azure to consume into Dynamics 365. Let say we have employees data that we want to show into virtual entity, so let’s get started!!

Creating My First ChatBot Using Angular(5.0) And Dialogflow (API.AI)Nov 20, 2017. Anyone who have ever tried to contact company through customer care center they know how slow and frustrating process it is. You remember that audio tape “press 1 for this, press 2 for this ,press * to go back to menu and blaa blaa blaa….“ say for example if you want to activate a simple caller tune to your phone number then you have to spent at least 10 min to know the code to activate that caller tune by hearing that audio tape and pressing so many number and finally if you had a good luck then only you able to activate you caller tune.

Create A Flash Light App In Xamarin.Android Using Visual StudioNov 08, 2017. Here it goes, My friend receive Samsung mobile phone few month ago. She like it in particular, yet one thing that it doesn&#39;t accompany is the toolbox for fundamental utilities. One of them is the spotlight application that triggers the gadget to enact or deactivate the electric lamp as required. Android supports you to have Camera API devoured in your application (all things considered, electric lamp is given to photographs or recordings and not as a floodlight). Anyway, I was believing that I ought to get an application from Play Store, correct? No! Despite the fact that it would give me an &quot;exquisite&quot; answer for my spotlight issue, yet shouldn&#39;t something be said about the armed force of ad I should experience, or the hazy UI of the application. So I figured I should manufacture an application for herself to have the capacity to trigger the spotlight on or off.

Time Controlled ExhaustersOct 17, 2017. Exhauster is an essential component of every complex circuit and every industry. Exhauster consumes more energy, when continuously operated. In this article we are going to create an time controlled Exhauster using Arduino and Motor Driver (L293D). The time delay will save the power consumed and will compensate the temperature also.

Using Optional Query Parameters With Microsoft Graph API - Part OneOct 12, 2017. While Microsoft already has all the documentation to cover all its technology, in this article I will try to explain these ODATA query parameters with some different angles and usage scenarios. I’m sure you will enjoy reading this article and learn something new.

Create Power BI Report Using Twitter AnalyticsOct 04, 2017. In this article, we will learn how we can use Twitter analytics data and prepare Power BI Report. We can export Twitter analytics data in .csv format and consume that .csv file to prepare a Power BI report.

Consume Local File System As A Data Source In Power BISep 27, 2017. We all know Power BI is a very good business intelligence tool. Sometimes there is a situation when we need to prepare report using file system. Power BI provides a connector to consume data from folder structure.
We can get all files from a specific folder. But there is one limitation with this connector.

Create SMS Android App Using Android StudioSep 21, 2017. In this article, I will show you how to create a pop up menu Android App using Android Studio. SMS stands for Short Message Service and is also commonly referred to as a &quot;text message&quot;. With a SMS, you can send a message of up to 160 characters to another device. Longer messages will automatically be split up into several parts. Most cell phones support this type of text messaging.

Fetch User Details And Profile Picture From Person Or Group Field Using REST APISep 18, 2017. In one of my projects (on Office 365) I have a requirement to scroll key contacts of a project with the use&#39;s Full Name, Department, Job Title, Phone (Work/ Mobile) and Picture URL. Since all contacts are internal employees I don’t have to input user details, I just need a person and group field in a list to capture the user.

Using MPMoviePlayer In Xamarin iOSSep 15, 2017. Xamarin is a platform to develop cross-platform and multi-platform apps (for example, Windows Phone, Android, iOS). In Xamarin platform, the code sharing concept is used. In Xamarin Studio, Visual Studio is also available.

How To Consume Web API Through SSIS PackageSep 07, 2017. In this article, I have illustrated the purpose of SSIS with Web API. It shows how SSIS can use Web API to do certain operations, like updating the database table based on Service response, and process the data, etc.

Use Wikipedia As A Data Source To Prepare Power BI ReportSep 07, 2017. Power BI is a business intelligence tool. It supports so many data sources to prepare a report. As we all know Wikipedia is a very good resource of useful information.
We can consume Wikipedia data as a data source and prepare a Power BI report.

Load Testing Web Service Using Visual StudioSep 04, 2017. Web Services are the more commonly developed and used to expose the APIs for other systems to consume. Number of external systems consume the web services on a frequent basis.

Create Office Web Add-In Project Using Visual StudioAug 24, 2017. In this article, I would like to share the steps to create Office web add-in projects using Visual Studio. In this article, we have explored what Office add-ins are and how to create Office web add-in projects using Visual Studio 2015.

JavaScript Code For Validating U.S. Format Phone NumbersAug 21, 2017. In this article, we shall learn how to do client side validation of US format phone numbers in three textbox fields. It means the application will be more responsive because the load on the server is reduced. JavaScript uses the client machine processing power.

Consuming Restful Services In Xamarin.Forms - Part TwoAug 14, 2017. In the first part, we called a fake RESTFul service, got some data from the service, and displayed it in a list view. Now in this article, we will continue where we left and add, delete some data which we displayed in previous part.

How To Do Paging With ASP.NET Web APIAug 10, 2017. In this article, we are going to learn how to do paging with Web API. In this modern era where there are tons of data to share and consume here we cannot send all data at one go or consumer we need to slice the data into pieces to share known as paging.

Custom Content Page Using Xamarin.FormsAug 09, 2017. Xamarin is a platform that allows us to create multi-platform mobile applications like Windows phone, Apple iOS, and Android through a single integrated development environment (IDE). This platform allows the designers to develop and design various mobile platform applications within a limited period. We will discuss how to create CustomContentPage using Xamarin.Forms (or) cross platform from VS2017.

Phone Number Authentication Using FirebaseAug 06, 2017. In this article, I am going to explain how to use phone number authentication on android with google firebase, which allows users to sign in using their phone number by receiving a One Time Password SMS.

Using MasterPage In Xamarin.FormAug 04, 2017. Xamarin is a platform that allows us to create multi-platform mobile applications like Windows phone, Apple iOS, and Android through a single integrated development environment (IDE). We will discuss how to create MasterDetail Page applications from VS2017. There are many plugins available for Xamarin Cross platform including Stack Layout, Label,ScrollView and buttons.

UITableView : Swipe-Right In Xamarin iOS AppJul 19, 2017. In this article, you will learn how to Swipe Right Using UITableView in Xamarin iOS, using Xamarin Studio. Xamarin is a platform to develop cross-platform and multi-platform apps (for example, Windows phone, Android, iOS). In Xamarin platform, the code sharing concept is used. In Xamarin Studio, Visual Studio is also available.

UITableView in Xamarin iOS AppJul 18, 2017. In this article, you will learn how to create a list using UITableView in Xamarin iOS, using Xamarin Studio. Xamarin is a platform to develop cross-platform and multi-platform apps (for example, Windows phone, Android, iOS). In Xamarin platform, the code sharing concept is used. In Xamarin Studio, Visual Studio is also available.

How To Create Simple Game Play Application Using Cross PlatformJul 15, 2017. Xamarin is a platform that allows us to create multi-platform mobile applications like (Windows phone, Apple iOS , Android) through a single integrated development environment (IDE). This platform allows the designers to develop and design various mobile platform applications within a limited period. We will discuss how to create game applications using Xamarin.Forms (or) cross platform from VS2017. There are many plugins available including Stack Layout, Label and button.

Consume Web API In Winform For File HandlingJul 12, 2017. In this article, we will see in detail how to consume Web API in Windows Form for Uploading File to Web server, get the list of file Information from Server folder and download the file from Server using C# Windows application.

Chat Bot Using Microsoft Bot Framework With LUIS - Part OneJul 03, 2017. LUIS: Language Understanding Intelligent Service. We can teach this service to understand intention and extract the entities from user query/activity. Client app (e.g. chat bot) can consume this output using HTTP endpoint of LUIS application.

Create And Read Operations Using ASP.NET WCF ServicesAug 22, 2016. In this article, we will create a WCF Service, which will insert the data into the database and retrieve the data from the database. Further, we will consume this Service in ASP.NET Web Application and also learn the techniques to generate logs from the client Application.